Susan Hartley Ph.D  is a peacebuilding activist, Rotary Peace Fellow, clinical psychologist, and an advocate for promotion of population wellness through addressing the social determinants of health.  She has extensive experience in gender rights and anti-poverty activism and is a long time volunteer with not for profit organizations that address human rights and gender based structural and cultural violence.

 

She has taken on numerous leadership roles in peacebuilding including coordinating the Women’s Peace Tables Worldwide in which she collaborated with #womenseriously  and Peace Women across the Globe, and providing program and project development consultation to groups in Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina and Bolivia.  She regularly speaks to community and service groups on the role and work of Rotary Peace Fellows and peacebuilding.  She was a visiting professor on the topic of  Gender, Peace and Conflict at the Rotary Peace Centre at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University.

 

She also has extensive experience working within the not for profit sector, sitting on numerous NGO Boards of Directors and volunteering for local, regional and national community groups. Her work in this realm is varied yet focused on helping those organizations working to address human rights, poverty, and social justice issues.  She established the Atlantic Chapter of Right to Learn Afghanistan (formerly, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan), sits on the Board of the Atlantic Summer Institute for Healthy and Safe Communities (an organization promoting Health in All Policies, upstream health policy and the social determinants of health), and volunteers with the PEI Working Group for a Living Income (advocating for the implementation of Basic Income Guarantee in Canada).  She has lobbied and made numerous presentations on behalf of community groups to elected officials on these topics. 

 

Global Voices for Peace is her first book. 

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